Teaching English to Young Learners: Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds

Aimed at student teachers, educators and practitioners, Teaching English Language to Young Learners outlines and explains the crucial issues, themes and scenarios relating to this area of teaching. Each chapter by a leading international scholar offers a thorough introduction to a central theme of English as a foreign language (EFL) with preteens, with clear presentation of the theoretical background and detailed references for further reading, providing access to the most recent scholarship. Exploring the essential issues critically and in-depth, including the disadvantages as well as advantages of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) with young learners, topics include: – task-based learning in the primary school; – storytelling; – drama; – technology; – vocabulary development; – intercultural understanding; – Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) scenarios; – assessment. Innovative and rapidly emerging topics are covered, such as immersion teaching, pictur in the EFL classroom and English with pre-primary children.Teaching English to Young Learners: Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3-12 Year Olds 1st Edition is written by Janice Bland and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Teaching English to Young Learners are 9781472588586, 1472588584 and the print ISBNs are 9781472588562, 1472588568.